College football Week 8 preview: SEC showdowns, USC-Notre Dame

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How do you take a typical big October Saturday and make it even better? By making every big game a toss-up.

Week 8 of the college football season gives us four ranked-versus-ranked battles -- an enormous SEC tripleheader and Notre Dame-USC. My SP+ ratings project all four games to finish within 3.1 points. Then, there's the Holy War (BYU-Utah), too. All in all, there are 60 FBS games this weekend, and 32 are projected within one score. We should get at least a couple of classics among the big games, and the thing that separates college football Saturdays from anything else -- sheer depth of action -- should be on overwhelming display.

There are stakes, too! The SEC race is…